Anyone who likes their classic PC games will be sad to hear that GOG.com has closed down. A message posted on the home page of the site reads:

We have recently had to give serious thought to whether we could really keep GOG.com the way it is. We’ve debated on it for quite some time and, unfortunately, we’ve decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.

We’re very grateful for all support we’ve received from all of you in the past two years. Working on GOG.com was a great adventure for all of us and an unforgettable journey to the past, through the long and wonderful history of PC gaming.

GOG.com was much loved among PC gamers as it provided classic games updated to run on modern operating systems and DRM-free. It also ran regular promotions allowing you to pick up a handful of classic for just a few dollars most weeks.

This may not be the end of GOG.com, however, as the message from the GOG team goes on to state:

This doesn’t mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We’re closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await.

Don’t worry if you are an existing customer of the site, as the team are working to make the games you purchased accessible over the next few days. There’s also meant to be more information appearing about future plans tomorrow according to the GOGcom Twitter feed.

I hope that GOG does find a way back online to offer all the fantastic games it had in its catalog. I can’t see this being an issue with revenue, probably more to do with publisher problems. A post from September 17 on the site’s Twitter feed read:

Sometimes it’s really hard being DRM-free… hard to keep things the way they are and keep management and publishers happy :(

Maybe the problem stems from the fact you can just pay and download without any security in place after that. Could GOG be down so as to relaunch as a more Steam-like service? We’ll hopefully find out in the next few days.